Claim · #6492478
Bombus lapidarius · pollination · Trifolium repens
pollination · effect: beneficial
pollinates GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“foraging in artificially created patches of varying size of white clover”
- Authors
- Goulson D.
- Year
- 2010
- Publication
- Oxford University Press
- Page
- 108
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“B. lapidarius is a well-documented pollinator of Trifolium repens; experimental patch-foraging studies on white clover are consistent with established bumblebee optimal-foraging literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Bombus lapidarius workers are well-documented pollinators of Trifolium repens; foraging patch-size experiments are standard for bumblebee optimal foraging studies.”
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